Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . Long Hair of the Men. ance shows them to be quick, intelligent, ingenious,and thoroughly human. With our surroundings and bringing up, drawingas we do upon the entire world for our daily wants,we can have no concept
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . Long Hair of the Men. ance shows them to be quick, intelligent, ingenious,and thoroughly human. With our surroundings and bringing up, drawingas we do upon the entire world for our daily wants,we can have no conception of the earlier condition ofthis people and their almost inconceivable destitution VOL. I.—31. Appendix II 483 and restriction as to materials, dependent for every-thing M^^OYi a few miles of Arctic coast-line. To themsuch an ordinary thing as a piece of wood was just asunattainable as is the moon to the petulant child thatcries for it. Is it to be wondered at that under thesecircumstances a man offered me his dogs and sledgeand all his furs for a bit of board as long as himself;that another offered me his wife and two children fora shining knife ; and that a woman offered me every-thing she had for a needle ? They are a comxmunity of children in their simplicity,honesty, and happylack of all care ; ofanimals in their sur-roundings, theirfood and habits ; ofiron men in theirutter disregard ofcold, hunger, andfatigue ; of beingsof hiofh intelliorencein the constructionand use of the im-plements of thechase, and the in-genious concentration of every one of the few possi-bilities of the barren country which is their home, uponthe two great problems of their existence—somethingto
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